Posts Tagged ‘Rescue’

A North Smithfield, Alabama terrier named Mason, was hiding, cowering in a garage on April 27, terrified by the storm raging outside, when he was picked up by a tornado that destroyed his owner house, and carried him away with the debris pile that had become of the now demolished structure,flinging him to certain death.(Huffpo) […]

The pictures are very dramatic….(CBS) A distraught young bride to be , 22-year-old Li Mou of Jilin province, was dramatically rescued from certain death, by a brave group of rescuers, after the disturbed young woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of a window on the 7th story of a skyscraper in a building in Changchun city in […]

Talk about resilience!(CBS) 3 weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami,a lone dog was rescued at sea off the coast of Kesennuma, Japan, on Friday after being found drifting on a roof surrounded by debris,according to the Japan Coast Guard.(Huffpo) The Tsunami dog, as it has been dubbed,was spotted by helicopter at around 4 p.m. by a […]

A 6.3-magnitude quake hit the city of Christchurch,New Zealand on Tuesday, collapsing buildings, crushing buses, breaking up sidewalks,cracking roads,splitting and trapping many people inside toppled structures.(BBC) The 6.3 earthquake hit at a depth of 5 km and centred 10 km south-east of the city of Christchurch. It struck at 12:51pm mid-day during the height of a busy weekday.(Video) There are […]

Spanish police have released security camera footage showing a drunken, stumbling 41 year-old man falling from the platform at the Puerta del Angel station onto the train tracks of an oncoming Metro train, at a Madrid Metro station.(Source) The man was under the influence of alcohol and had lost his balance and fallen from the […]

I’m all for pet adoption and animal rescue and all, but there is no shortage of rats, and I, like most people,look at them as rodents, vermin and pest that carry and transmit a lot of deadly diseases.(Source) I’m not hating on rats,but if I see them around a restaurant,I definitely will not eat there!!!(Watch […]

Indian security personnel inspect the site of a crashed Air India Express passenger plane in Mangalore May 23, 2010. An Air India Express airliner crashed and burst into flames outside Mangalore airport in Karnataka on Saturday, killing 158 people, many thought to be Indian migrant workers returning home from Dubai. (VIDEO) [picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=air+india&iid=8886721″ […]

It’s a beautiful day here for me,in downtown Los Angeles,but unfortunately…it has not been that way for a few unfortunate souls here this morning, because they had to endure the shock and trauma of having to escape from the inside of a burning building and fight for their lives!!! The AP is reporting that an […]

As reported on You tube…A string of earthquakes and aftershocks rattled the Pacific Coast of the United States and Mexico on Sunday, including a magnitude 7.2 quake in northwest Mexico’s Baja California that could be felt in Arizona and Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. At least one person was killed in a building […]

A major earthquake has struck southern California at about 3:45pm Easter Sunday,causing an interruption in what was a peaceful, happy, Easter Sunday ,at family gatherings all over the city.(San Diego-6 news) To put it in perspective,the catastrophic Haiti earthquake that devastated the island recently was measured to be a 7.0 tremor, killing hundreds of thousands,and the […]